Men, sex and farewells: A girl talk with Marnie

Allison Williams chats about the final season of Lena Dunham’s millennial comedy, writes Gerard Gilbert

hour-long special just to see what everyone’s up to. And I promised her at one point that I would show my boobs on camera at 60. Which I will regret almost certainly, but it also means that I aspire to a certain amount of chill that I will have reached that age. Or maybe that there’s nothing that I could do to shock any potential children I have, so that also won’t shock them.

“It will be another thing for me to dread about getting older,” Williams continues. “If Lena’s still interested. She may take one look at me at that point and be like, ‘actually, no one wants to see that’.”

Having seen the first three episodes of the final season, Girls appears to be going out on a high – bowing out as the characters reach an age when they arguably should know better. Does Williams feel that the show has spoken for a generation? “Probably in its specificity,” she says.

“If we were endeavouring to truly speak for an entire generation, there’s no way that could be that unless you have a person who represents every person in our generation, which is one of the most diverse in our history, so it’s impossible.”

And has Marnie taught Williams anything? “Yes, she’s taught me that I don’t need to do that walkabout because she did it. My hope is that I benefited from it myself just going through the motions of doing it. I hope I absorbed all of her lessons, otherwise I’m about to go through a quarter-life crisis, which I really wouldn’t like.” – The Independent

Girls season six begins on Now TV and Sky Atlantic tonight at 10pm; Get Out opens in cinemas on March 17.

Girls. Allison Williams as Marnie Michaels in the HBO comedy series

Girls. Allison Williams (Marnie) and Lena Dunham (Hannah) in a scene from